Ukraine

<p>17 April, Kyiv, <em>Antonov</em> State Company unveiled a new aircraft <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-178" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AN-178</a>.</p>

<p>10 April, President Petro Poroshenko has arrived to Odesa to join festive events marking the Odesa liberation from German-Nazi occupants during the WWII.</p>

<p>Kremlin makes one more attempt to destabilize situation in Ukraine - separatist Bessarabia People's Council was created in Odessa yesterday, 6 April, <a href="http://dumskaya.net/news/v-odesse-taki-byla-sozdana-narodnaya-rada-bessar-045386/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dumskaya.net</a> reports, involving pro-Russian organisations, including from unrecognised Transnistria.</p>

<p>Smiling faces of women and men, of children and elderly people – several thousand Odessa residents and guests, including those from other Ukrainian cities and even from other countries, in particularly Germany, Poland and Switzerland, participated today in city’s annual mass sport event “100km Along the Glory Belt”.</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"></span>1 April, 17 up-armoured Ford Rangers were handed over to the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in the framework of the Security Assistance to Ukraine referenced in the 4 June 2014 White House Fact Sheet, U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine <a href="https://www.facebook.com/usdos.ukraine?fref=nf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.</p>

<p>Ukraine disproves allegations of pro-Russian mass-media and Transnistria, in particularly KGB, on the involvement of Ukrainian border guards in shooting 31 March on the Transnistrian segment of the Moldovan-Ukrainian border, and says they are aimed at destabilized situation in the region.</p>

<p><strong style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy_Parubiy" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer;" rel="noopener">Andriy Parubiy</a>, Deputy Speaker of <strong style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Parliament</strong>, Ukrainian politician and the former Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine [appointed after the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity], met with a delegation of US congressmen in Kyiv. EMPR presents <span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Andriy Parubiy's </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/andriy.parubiy/posts/885773091488875" target="_self" style="cursor: pointer;" rel="noopener">report</a> on how this meeting was held <span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">for our english-speaking audience.</span></strong></p>

<p>The leader of the "right sector", MP Dmytro Yarosh was offered a position at the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. This was announced by Advisor of Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko, Ukrainian Patriots reports.</p>

<p>The Security Service of Ukraine detained a person, planning a terrorist attack during rally in Dnipropetrovsk on Saturday, 28 March, the Service reports.</p>

<p>Tears and laughter, philosophical meditations and real fighting, friendship, bravery and losses – 11 March Odesa gave a standing ovation at pre-premiere screening of documentary <em>The Ukrainians</em> ("Добровольці Божої Чоти" in Ukrainian release).</p>

Early in the morning on 11 March Kyivites met the Cyborgs – Ukrainian servicemen of the 95th air-mobile brigade coming back from the front. On their way to Zhytomyr – their basic deployment place and home for many the servicemen were passing through Kyiv.

<p>6 March, white minvan owned by Slobozhanshchina battalion commander Andriy Yanholenko exploded, <a href="http://www.hromadske.tv/politics/v-kharkovi-vibukhnulo-avto-kombata-batalionu--slob/">hromadske.tv </a>reports with reference to other sources.</p>